Problems with Google Reviews Scraper API

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Hi there,

I’m trying to retrieve all the reviews that were left by people on Google Maps for an exhibition using an API (Google Reviews Scraper API).

But I’m bumping into 2 obstacles:

  1. The API fetches only 10 Google reviews out of all the available reviews. How come? How to scrape all the reviews?

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  1. When I set the ‘sort’ parameter to ‘newest’ in the HTTP ‘Make an API Key Auth Request’ module, I get all comments that were left by people. But when I set it to ‘relevant’, I get only certain comments. Why? How to fix this?

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I would greatly appreciate your help.

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According to the official documentation,

You can increase the pagesize to 50, and if you want more than 50, you need to make additional/multiple requests with the nextPage parameter (shown at the bottom of your screenshot) in the pageToken parameter.

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Thanks for your reply, @samliew. But I’m not using Google official API for this use case. You need to be the owner of the account managing the place to be able to scrape its reviews. Instead, I’m using Google Reviews Scraper API, but its creator did not draw up any documentation.

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You should check out the Discussions on the RapidAPI page,

In one of the topics, the author made a video on how to use the nextPage parameter of their API.

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I’ll watch it. Thanks for your prompt and helpful reply (as always)!